“Poetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.”

“Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.”

“Poetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.”

“Wine is bottled poetry.”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“The Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poet’s hearts.”

“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”

“I think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.”

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.”

“You are the butterfly and you are gone.”

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”

“Poetry is sort of a homecoming.”

“All night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.”

“A poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That’s what poetry does.”

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

“Poetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“Words are alive — cut them and they bleed.”